Europe - Switzerland, France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Italy

Well, there is a beautiful wall near Salzburg, I will show you when you come here. It is a rather advanced site, though, it is mandatory to always have clean exits and good subterminal tracks. But do not think that there are really "big walls" here like they exist in Norway :). We are talking about 7-10 seconds delay. There are other possibilities not too far away from Salzburg, but I have not yet jumped them personally. So I would like to go there anyway and jump them, I will contact a friend who knows these sites.

For nice acro sites: no problem. In Germany, I like Wallberg near Munich / Tegernsee quite a lot, it has quite some height (about 900 m total) and you can do approx. 3-4 manoeuvres. In addition, it is really beautiful to fly there. In Austria we have for example Krippenstein with 1700 m height, that is really awesome. Ossiacher See / Gerlitzen in Kaernten also offers a lot of height (not as much as Krippenstein though), and in addition there are many acro pilots constantly training there, so you have a real "scene" over there. Obviously, there are many many more sites (Zillertal, Stubaital, ...), but those above are the ones where I like to go to for acro. For XC the supply is endless anyway.

See you, Eduard.

Hi Shane,

if you happen to pass through Southern Germany or Austria simply drop me a message and I will be happy to help you out where possible. I do mostly paragliding now and less base jumping but sharing a nice cliff is always good :). There are some beautiful cliffs also in Austria (Germany not really though). Possibly also some bridges. For paragliding, no problem, there are really many excellent sites in Germany as well as in Austria, for acro as well as for XC. For speedgliding you would have to foot-launch, there are not really any good glaciers with snow in summer in Austria for ski-take offs. Pal is right that for ski-speedgliding you probably have to go to Chamonix or similar high mountains. Maybe also Saas-Fee, but I do not know how this is for speedgliding.

But Lauterbrunnen is anyway probably the best culmination point of all those sports!

See you, Eduard.

Shane, where are you from? I live in Salt Lake, Utah and I travel over there quite often to speedfly, xc, and acro. I can make some recomendations. You are doing it right so far, making Lauterbrunnen home base is perfect. That valley alone is full of fun. Sounds like a blast.